The observation that a proportion of chronic alcoholics become demented late in their drinking career has given rise to a controversy concerning the aetiology of this dementia (Victor and Adams, 1985; Lishman, 1990). The argument pivots around a central point of contention which is whether alcohol...
Can you tell me why dementia is associated with drinking alcohol? I have drinking problem and I am afraid that I will have some complications. I am 60 years old and I am drinking for about 30 years. I was not drunk every day but still it is a long time. Please, help me!
Alcohol consumptionAlcohol-related dementiaAlcohol use disordersChronic alcoholismDementiaAlcoholism is a chronic relapsing disorder that can include extended periods of abstinence followed by relapse to heavy drinking. Decades of evidence have clearly shown that long-term, chronic ethanol exposure produces ...
a systematic search was performed by using OVID to identify all systematic reviews published from January 2000 to October 2017 on Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO and by using a combination of keywords and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms related to alcohol use, dementia, AD...
This cohort study examines the association between alcohol intake and risk of dementia among older adults with or without mild cognitive impairment.
It is widely believed that light-to-moderate alcohol intake may protect against dementia while excessive drinking may instead increase the risk. Nonetheless, these findings need cautious interpretations due to varying methodologies and lack of standard definition, which hindered our transferring into preven...
The relation between alcohol and dementia has been widely studied, with some studies showing a possible benefit of light to moderate drinking, while others have found a detrimental effect of heavy drinking on dementia risk. The World Health Organization defines chronic heavy drinking as consuming ...
In the fully adjusted analysis, drinking alcohol frequently was still significantly associated with increased dementia risk with a hazard ratio of 1.40 (1.07-1.84). However, the association between dementia and abstaining from alcohol was no longer significant (1.15, 0.92-1.43). Equivalent results ...
Erin, you can reduce your risk for developing dementia by drinking alcohol in moderation, reducing your risk for developing atherosclerosis, maintaining a normal blood pressure and low levels of low density or LDL cholesterol, avoid being overweight and do not smoking. ...
The mechanism behind recovery from white matter damage is thought to involve the restoration of myelination and axonal integrity, but is vulnerable to repeated disruption if drinking is resumed [11]. Harper [1] concludes that the brain pathology of abusers of alcohol likely has two components: ...